* Beaker go splash, plants mutate good
* Hard committing to this for the time being.
* Clean up.
* Not sure what I forget here.
* As yes right, I did do this.
* Avoids chemical conflicy my making it uranium, frost oil, potassium.
* More informational, and uncaps removed genes per cut, at the cost of plant health each time.
* Moved to a more critical node to enable gameplay earlier.
* Committing suggestion.
Co-Authored-By: moo <11748095+ExcessiveUseOfCobblestone@users.noreply.github.com>
* Very valid point about iterating down loops, ngl
* Fixes fixes, and other fixes.
* Fixes up documentation, and removes unused code.
* Adjusts Nutridrain to be calculated on the process side.
* Prevents Non-Extractable and Non-Removable genes from being removed, as originally intended.
Co-authored-by: moo <11748095+ExcessiveUseOfCobblestone@users.noreply.github.com>
Shoutout to skog for helping me fine tune a lot of the ideas for this as well as convincing me to do it anyway. Feel free to send me your adoration and glory (once this is actually balanced and tested out so I can work out the like 1000 little runtimes and bugs this will surely have.)
About The Pull Request
Lets Start with everything that DIDN'T change.
Plants still have all their unique qualities. That includes chems, traits, all that good stuff.
Plant stats have been unchanged, with an exception I'll bring up later.
Cool. Onto everything else.
Changes to hydroponics trays.
Trays now have a new feature that visually you may be very familiar with. By Ctrl Clicking a tray, it activates Autogrow. Autogrow uses a HEAVY amount of power per tray, but in return it automatically maintains the plant contained within, limited nutrient loss, adding a gradual amount of water per process, and keeps pests and weeds at bay. Ideally you would only be using this on high maintenance plants, or if you need to leave your department for a few minutes. Having all your trays on Autogrow is an excellent way to kill your APC cell in a matter of seconds, even on a robust power setup.
Trays no longer use **Nutrient Points.** Instead, each tray has an internal reagent holder that basically holds a beaker for your plant's nutrients. In exchange, the tray now determines the gradual stat changes of plants based on nutrients within that nutrient tank. That's right, no more dumping chemicals into the tray to reach 100 potency in a matter of minutes. You can, however, use reagent mixes in order to improve plant stats in a satisfying way. Still, with each tray having a default of 10 reagents maximum in the tank, it places a greater impetus on upgrading trays if want to really get the most of a specific chemical composition.
If you realize you need to change the nutrients in the tank, you can Alt Click to empty the whole tank at once.
Seed Changes
All plants now have a new stat, Instability. (It was originally titled stability so I'm changing it here but yes it is now called instability) Contrary to the name, the higher the stability of the plant, the more likely that your plant will see radical changes. Plants with a low stability will not see much difference, but as you go higher and higher you will start seeing the plant automatically mutate with harsher ramifications. At 60 Stability, the plant has a chance to automatically mutate it's species. At 80 Stability, assuming you can prevent the plant from mutating beforehand, the plant has a chance to receive random plant traits similar to strange seeds. That's right! You can now be free from the tyranny of the strange seed market!
Plants are now affected differently by pests and weeds. Instead of outright killing plants, they will instead heavily lower a plant's yield and potency instead. This also allows for plants that have been left for a few minutes to outright die far less than they were before, but at the same time encourage using autogrow when AFK within the department.
When growing a plant however, you have something new to consider. Plants will now pollinate adjacent seeds in trays, which will bleed off adjacent stats to other plants. Primarily, this affects your core stats. like potency, yield, also stability. If you have 2 plant with high and low potency, they'll bleed their stats off into each other as they grow. This allows for interesting mechanical gameplay between nutrient choices, stability, and adjacency. Some plants have naturally high stability that can bleed off of other plants (Corn, Wheat, and Weeds), while others have naturally low stability and can help bring plants back into a maintainable stability threshold if you just want to harvest the plant itself.
Pollination at high levels of stability can also cause the adjacent plants to receive chemical traits from each other. This allows for plants to share chemical traits without having an insane level of control afforded by the DNA manipulator. However, careful manipulation of plant reagents is difficult to do perfectly, and should be done carefully, as well as experimentally.
For a more controlled trait experience however, we have Plant Grafts. Plant grafts are obtained by using the new secateurs, or sheers, that comes with the botanist's default kit. When a plant is ready to harvest, you can cut off a plant graft, which carries several of the plant's stats and qualities with it. When transplanted, you can share the unique traits of several plants into a new host. These traits are mostly the physical traits you're most likely familiar with, like bio-luminescence, slippery skin, liquid contents, the works. You can also store plant grafts if there's a specific trait build you'd like to eventually get to. Since you need to fully grow a plant to graft it, the process of obtaining several unique traits for a plant will result in more types of plants needing to be grown as a result.
Alright, this leads up to what you're probably guessing. DNA manipulator for plants is dead. Even if it's really good, being able to Frankenstein a dozen different plants together without even growing half of them is kinda lame, you have to admit. The new trait and chemical controls are a bit more robust overall to compensate for this.
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Why It's Good For The Game
Chemical dependence hydroponics is dead.
Genefreak maxed out stats plants are dead.
The Tyranny of Pests and Weeds killing plants for cooperating with the station is dead.
Ambrosia Gaia is now no longer the staple plant of hydroponics, as earthblood trays are dead.
Plant mutations are now easier to come by, and can be achieved within 2 plant generations assuming you're not crossbreeding and using readily available chems.
Chefs, and by extension bartenders, get a wider array of plant's each to work with.
Botanists are no longer required to acquire a chem dispenser at shift-start to acquire mutated plants.
Crosspollination, mutation, and grafting allows for a more interesting dynamic in improving plant stats, as opposed to just clicking buttons. It also rewards planning and developing system for growing plants.
Changelog
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add: Plants can now Cross-Pollinate, via adjacency. This causes plant stats of average into each-other.
add: Plants now have a new stat, Instability. Instability allows for gradual mutations to a plant's stats at certain thresholds, and a chance of mutation, or gaining new random traits at even higher thresholds.
add: Plants can be grafted when ready to harvest, and grafts can be applied to plants in order to share unique traits, or share stat changes.
del: The Plant DNA Manipulator is dead. Long Live the DNA manipulator.
tweak: Hydroponics trays now have their own internal beaker for holding chemical reagents. As such, chemical affects on plants are gradual, and slowly alter seed stats over generations.
balance: Several chemicals are adjusted to match the new system. Experiment!
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* huthtuthuthuthtuhtuthuthuthuthtuthuthuthtuthut
* documents and expands, adds new glove types
* Adds slamming into tables and neatens up throwingdatum handling (+stuff)
* bit less squishy
* adds sprites, offbrands, swaps most combat insuls for tacklers
* adds dolphin and rocket gloves to BEPIS
* changes dna to traits, buffs tackling
* same as last commit but moreso
* updates docs, nerfs stuns
* vending machines, better docs
* window tackles for good measure
* gets window splats working
* polish off
* LAST DAY OF SCHOOL
* Startwork
* "Arcane: Everything works up until the export datum bullshit"
* I got up to "Split Profit" in "sell object"
* This is when I switched over to components and it STILL doesn't work
* alright stopwork for the 'night'
* So this is the version that crashes
* One step further in my descent to madness.
* Alright, this should be working (Minus maybe profit_split)
* Alright splitting up custom sales splits is broken right now.
* Profit split works now.
* Alright what the hell is going on here.
* Revert "Alright what the hell is going on here."
This reverts commit 6cb3b6eb56ea45ede3496bbe219ca18302c806e2.
* Oh wait, I can do commit messages through VSC?
* Adds a quick little box with all the shipping supplies you'll ever want, unwrapping signal
* Added shipping box to all maps and the service/cargo lathes.
* Fuck you mapmerge hook you ain't shit
* Alright, yet another take of making it get rid of the pricetag
* [3:43 PM] oranges: anturk is smart (This is true)
* Tested, cleaned up component procs, and limits signals sent a bit.
* Whoops
* Other comments from Ninja over discord
* Left in a comment line.
* Fixes the issue with ind. barcodes, adds examine.
* Well thank GOD the children wern't there to see it
* Adds a do_after to prevent accidents.
* Fixes merge conflicts
* Fixes merge conflict. Twice in one day.
* Fixes merge conflict.
* one tiny bit of documentation
* Travis play nice.
About The Pull Request
Adds the Enhanced Interrogation Chamber as a BEPIS reward.
This security-only machine is able to implant a deep-rooted trigger phrase onto a subject; if they hear that phrase after the procedure, they will immediately enter a state of hypnotic trance, which can be used to demand truthful answers for your ongoing investigation.
The enslavement of criminal and non-criminal subjects is frowned upon by space law. Do not abuse the Enhanced Interrogation Chamber for personal gain.
Bad choice or mishandling of trigger words may lead to loss of control over the subject.
Side effects include dizziness, nausea, confusion, vomit, loss of eyesight, violent tendencies, loss of sanity, depression, oppression, loss of free will, spontaneous hypnotic trance, loss of hair, death.
Use with care.
Why It's Good For The Game
Make your own Manchurian Candidate!
Allows "rehabilitation" of dangerous criminals by security, which is more interesting than straight-up execution.
Could lead to fun situations if a team antag is caught and forced to be a mole.
It could also be used by any antag who manages to get to the sec protolathe.
However, the "conversion" is still shaky! The main cure is surgery, as the triggered trance is effectively just a brain trauma, healable with surgery. On top of this, even if the subject is unable to hear their trigger phrase, if someone else knows it they can override commands at any time. Even if that doesn't happen, it's possible that another message sneaks in before you can give your command, intercepting the hypnosis.
On top of this, the chamber has a 10% chance of giving the hypnotic stupor trauma instead of the triggered trance, making the subject even more of a wildcard.
Effectively, this is a very powerful tool in the antag-vs-security conflict, but over-reliance on it will probably bite back in amusing ways.
Changelog
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add: Added the Enhanced Interrogation Chamber as a BEPIS researchable tech.
add: The EIC can be used to implant trigger phrases in subjects that cause an instant hypnotic trance.
/cl
* Makes abductor baton child of stun baton
- Clarify var names and reorder vars in baton defines
- Slightly simplify active baton wash code
* forget about ()
* Removed from code
* Removes cloners from maps
* Some more references, now compiles.
* Reduces availability of replica pods
* DNA scanner and tech disk rebranding
* pubby door name, cargo pack description
🆑 Kryson & Qustinnus
add: New BEPIS design; a self heating mug
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A self-heating mug that you can get from BEPIS designs. the better the cell thats in it, the higher the max temp and the faster the temp goes up.
About The Pull Request
Round 2.
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Adds a new tech to be unlocked within the B.E.P.I.S.'s major techs, called "Specialized Engineering". Within that tech are 2 new items, Heat Resistant Rods, and the Tinker's Gloves, as well as a new minor tech, the Survival Pen.
Heat Resistant Rods:
Have you ever wanted to expand Lavaland Base? Build a lava fortress worthy of your magnificence? Well, now you can! Using Heat Resistant Rods, you can make a catwalk to cross lava tiles, as well as build atop lava, without messy methods like using the RCD!
Tinker's Gloves:
This just in engineers, insulated gloves have new competition in town! The Tinker's gloves are complicated, overdesigned gloves that, while not very shockproof, allow for faster wall girder construction. No longer will you need to die of old age walling off an area when you're out of RCD ammo! Warning: This product contains no likeness to clockwork gauntlets used by the extinct cult of Rat'Var, and any such similarity is by no means intentional.
Survival Pen:
Have you ever been stuck on lavaland, trapped by your survival pod with just a few chairs, some titanium walls, and walls of ash closing in on you? Well THANK GOD you have your Rockbreaker brand Survival Pen! Allows for basic mining operations, and is portable like a standard pen!
BUT WAIT!
A watcher blocks your path. Thankfully, your expensive, diamond encrusted pen isn't just good for being the world's slowest pickaxe, it's ALSO coated in the one thing watchers crave: DIAMONDS. Toss the pen to draw the watcher's attention elsewhere.
Why It's Good For The Game
Starts to fill our B.E.P.I.S. Major Reward Techs, as intended, and fills a niche that doesn't get much play nowadays: Building on Lavaland. This was something I've had in the back of my mind since we did the first tests of the Disaster gamemode a few months ago, so each item here was made with the intention of improving the mining base should the station become un-livable. Lava-Proof Rods are beneficial in that you'll be able to cross and build over lava by the mid-end of the shift. RCDs still work as usual, but this way you won't have to worry about getting specialized engineering equipment as a member of cargo or science. The tinker's gloves are basically a variant of the nitrile gloves, but they grant a speed bonus to adding plating to metal girders, so that some kind of functional alternative to giving every engineer insulated gloves.
Survival Pens are quite honestly very niche, but getting dumb pens with extra functionality is a tradition of trade shows all over the world, so it feels right at home as a minor reward.
Also, does a tiny change to the doe sprites, just to look a little bit less old.
Changelog
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add: A new Technology has been implemented as a major reward in the B.E.P.I.S., Specialized Engineering, to appeal to engineering utility and new construction horizons.
tweak: Watchers will now actively consume diamond ore left lying around, alongside the new survival pens.
/cl
About The Pull Request
When #48236 was in progress, there was discussion about how a crew pinpointer was OP for paramedics. I immediately had an idea for a new one and made a PR to the paramedic PR. 81Denton asked me to make this its own PR after the paramedic PR was merged.
The proximity crew pinpointer does not point in the direction of the patient, but has a circle sprite that gets smaller larger as you get closer, so you have to search around, or combine it with the handheld crew monitor.
The circle is at maximum the smallest size after 29 tiles away, so you must be 28 or fewer tiles away for an indication that you are getting close. I welcome feedback on this. The handheld crew monitor can be used to find the area they are in.
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Demo video: https://youtu.be/_rXeJ49b-e8 (The pinpointer gets bigger rather than smaller now)
This is only attainable at the moment to paramedics as they spawn. Should it also be available elsewhere? now constructable from the Biological Technology techweb
Further changes
Moved Crew Pinpointer into premium nanomed items for 900 credits
Moved Handheld Crew monitor into premium nanomed items for 1750 credits, same price as before
Why It's Good For The Game
In #48236 it was stated that paramedics should start with the bare minimum equipment to do their job. The crew pinpointer that points them in exactly the right direction is pretty powerful, and this nerf will encourage them to either get used to the proximity one, or upgrade to the normal one at a price from the NanoMed or from techwebs.
Moving the Crew Monitor into premium was necessary to make it more of a luxury than an instant grab.
Feedback for nanomed premium prices on the normal pinpointer and the handheld monitor would help a lot
Changelog
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add: New proximity crew pinpointer.
balance: Paramedic's crew pinpointer replaced with proximity crew pinpointer.
balance: The crew monitor was moved to premium items in nanomed, same with the handheld crew pinpointer
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* The hero returns alive.
* Initial commit, boomerang batons and outback firing pins.
* Australicus is the lore in the game already, so #@$! it we'll pretend like #lore_general exists
* Name tweak.
* Fixes boomerang name, Inhands, accidently included a leftover sprite.
* Squashes Commits, has BEPIS, Techs, TGUIs, Rewards, and fixes.
* Makes rewardable techs a variable in all_nodes, and removes RnD Points rewards from the minor reward pool.
* Fixes conflict with pubby and beam icon.
* Review comments and basic cleanup A
* Review Comments and basic cleanup B, also cleans up icon states to work fluidly.
* Map Update
* Indentation, flipped Update_decal_path, and rebuilds tgui
* One last clean up of icon_state, adds the last bit of changes from review, and that should be everything.
* Alright last change for real I swear 105%
* Last change, adds simple sanity check for silicons.
* Moved Human and card variables into ui_interact.
* Fixes map conflict
* Alright Review Round 2 Part A, Fixes Grammar, splits polycircuit into it's own file, UI QOL improvements, Withdrawing credits, changes from arbitary values on the mini RLD, etc.
* More review bits, Part 2:B. Easier returns for less processing, Defines, fixes the merge conflict and updates the UI with new buttons. Just need to figure out Button Mapping for the UI and Duplicate prevention.
* Implemented duplicate tech protection. Yeet.
* Get back in there you
* Alright why are you breaking on me god damnit.
* It's optimized, closer to god, nearly perfect, all together it's ready to ship.
* Cleans up all of the decal painter, shorter, cleaner, works around all the turf_decal quirks.
* Tab spacing on github will look fucky
* More review changes.
* Uses use_power == ACTIVE_POWER_USE instead of powered except for the UI
* changes
* changes to detach and destroy
Remove code from detach(),
Add code to Destroy()
* added a trailing new line
I guess this is needed now or something
